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These charts are compiled weekly from actual airplay reported by over 50 independent contributing Bluegrass DJ’s. Only songs less than 18 months from date of original release appear here.
A weekly look at the most played songs of the week on radio.
A monthly aggregate of the most played bluegrass songs of the month on radio.
Weekly radio favorites focusing on the intersection between progressive bluegrass & Americana.
Weekly rundown of the most played bluegrass gospel tracks on radio.
Many thanks to Kaz Inaba in Japan for sharing this historic video of Bill Clifton when he visited Japan in 1993,…
I have had to think long and hard about what to say about the recent Bill Clifton biography, America’s Bluegrass Ambassador…
On June 1, (2017), we reported that Bill Clifton had been hospitalized for abdominal surgery. His recovery and subsequent release to…
Since reporting last week that bluegrass legend Bill Clifton had been hospitalized in Bristol, TN, we have received another update from…
Tineke Marburg, Bill Clifton’s wife, reports that he is in the ICU in Bristol Regional Medical Center in Tennessee, to where…
Late in October 1963, bluegrass singer Bill Clifton and his family moved to England for what was planned to be a…
On this Day …….. On November 7, 1958, Bill Clifton recorded Springhill Disaster, a song that he adapted from a poem…
On this day …. On July 21, 1998, ace British mandolin player Andy Townend passed away in the Kent and Sussex…
Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell has issued a proclamation declaring July 2011 as Virginia Bluegrass Festival Month. It, and six others recognizing…
Recently the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) announced the names of the two inductees to the International Bluegrass Music Hall of…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
